Senior SW Designer - Cloud Native
Pubblicato il 01-09-2026 - Ericsson in Pagani
About This Opportunity
Join a cross-functional team in Pagani, Italy, working on cloud-native telecom products. As a Senior Software Designer, you will play a leading role in designing and developing the software that powers Ericsson’s licensing and entitlement capabilities. You will work in an international environment, collaborating closely with a cross-functional-agile team to build scalable, secure and robust services that enable efficient license management and usage control across Ericsson products.
Beyond hands-on design, you will act as a technical reference representing a small team of engineers, guiding day-to-day work, ensuring technical alignment and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaborative problem solving. The team works according to Lean and Agile principles and values knowledge sharing at every stage.
If you are an experienced cloud-native engineer ready to take ownership of architecture decisions and team delivery, we encourage you to apply.
What You Will Do
Design & Development
- Define complete end-to-end cloud-native architectures that meet functional, performance and scalability requirements
- Analyze application footprint and assess resource consumption, infrastructure requirements and capacity sizing
- Determine scalability constraints and define appropriate sizing strategies for compute, storage and networking
- Design and document comprehensive cloud-native solutions, ensuring alignment with product and engineering standards
Engineering & Delivery
- Analyze requirements and identify practical opportunities for software features and intelligent automation
- Design, implement and test cloud-native components, services and data pipelines
- Build and maintain containerized applications and CI/CD pipelines
- Integrate modern software capabilities — including data processing, monitoring and automation tooling — where relevant to product needs
- Troubleshoot complex issues, support integration activities and produce clear, maintainable product documentation
- Contribute to product lifecycle activities and to the evolution of standards, guidelines and best practices
- Stay current with emerging technologies and proactively propose improvements to products and processes
Team Coordination
- Coordinate and provide technical direction to a small team of software engineers supporting planning, prioritization and workload distribution across team members
- Act as a mentor and technical escalation point, promoting quality, consistency and growth within the team
- Collaborate closely with product owners, SW designers and cross-functional stakeholders
You Will Bring Experience & Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in cloud-native software engineering or design roles
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in team coordination or technical leadership
Technical Skills
- Strong, proven experience in end-to-end cloud-native software design and architecture
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate performance, scalability and capacity sizing for distributed systems
- Proficiency in performing footprint analysis to estimate compute, storage and networking needs
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go or Java, with familiarity in scripting languages such as Bash
- Solid hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and container technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker
- Deep understanding of software design principles, distributed architecture patterns and object-oriented design
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, automation frameworks and agile product development practices
- Practical knowledge of AI/ML concepts; experience with model development, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation or vector databases is a strong plus
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical, planning and structured problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborative approach with a continuous learning mindset
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional and geographically diverse environment
Languages
- Fluent English and Italian
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next. What happens once you apply?Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team.
Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: Italy (IT) || Pagani
Req ID: 786601
Starting Salary in Primary Location: EUR 43200.0
The position includes benefits and employment conditions in accordance with the Telecomunications National Collective Labour Agreement and Company-Union Agreements.
We believe in rewarding talent fairly and transparently. We remain flexible to ensure we attract and retain exceptional people. Final offers may vary depending on experience, skill and other factors aligned with our Total Rewards philosophy.